#human-powered

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Pulled-rickshaw, Kyoto, Japan

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Bike-Powered Farming Program Turns Lawns Into Urban Farms

Eating local keeps communities healthy and reduces the miles that food travels to get to your plate, but what could be more local than plucking food right from your own yard? Fleet Farming volunteers. Photo credit: Fleet Farming Fleet Farming, a bike-powered, all-volunteer team of farmers in Orla...

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The fastest a human can bicycle is now 89.59 mph

We’d love to take credit for this awesome video, which we turned into a GIF, but it was made by Frank Lem of Aerovelo, the company that makes these bikes.

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Human-Powered Flight

Flight teams in Korea design, test and compete in human-powered flying machines.

via -The Awesomer

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New Post has been published on VR-Zone

Human-powered helicopter wins Sikorsky prize

Human-powered helicopter wins Sikorsky prize

A Canadian built human-powered helicopter becomes the first machine to ever win the 33-year old Sikorsky engineering prize. 33 years ago, the American Helicopter Society launched its Igor Sikorsky engineering prize for human-powered helicopters. The prize, which comes with a check for $250,000...

Read more: http://vr-zone.com/articles/human-powered-helicopter-wins-sikorsky-prize/45194.html

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New Post has been published on http://www.kerrylcacho.com/human-powered-emergency-cell-phone-charger/

Human powered emergency cell phone charger

Power outage? For the average citizen it’s very easy to take electricity for granted. Go a few hours or more without it though, and you’ll suddenly be reminded just what a luxury it is.

During an emergency situation, sometimes you have to come up with alternative methods to get the job done. This human powered cell phone charger is a great example.

Using just a few ordinary around the house items, [The King of Random] turned a cordless electric drill into a human powered electrical generator. If the drill is run in reverse and cranked by hand, the generated energy can be transferred through the battery terminals to a connected device. So, he cut a USB charger cable in half and wired it up to the terminals to be able to charge his cell phone. Some yarn, a salad fork, a mixing beater, a scrap 2″x4″, some aluminum foil, and scotch tape were the only other materials he used. Using this technique, a totally dead phone battery was charged in around 3 hours.

Remember that this method is only intended to be used in an emergency, not as every day practice. Using these methods could potentially overheat or damage your gear, so be careful.

Check out the MacGyver worthy video tutorial after the break. [via Neatorama]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hCxmn1ERbXc

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